Peering out.

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Afghan schoolgirls look on from a window of their school in Ghazni, Afghanistan, September 15, 2013. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule.

Afghan schoolgirls look on from a window of their school in Ghazni, Afghanistan, September 15, 2013. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule. (RAHMATULLAH ALIZADA / AFP/Getty Images)

Afghan schoolgirls look on from a window of their school in Ghazni, Afghanistan, September 15, 2013. Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule.